Word: revealed
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...judicial bench or in a prosecutor's office, you probably focus on respect for the rule of law. In truth, free press and fair trial are both important values. But they can collide, and increasingly journalists lose. News organizations find themselves ever more under court order to reveal confidential sources and sometimes to hand over notes en bloc -- often to a lawyer on a fishing expedition for anything that might help...
...June the Supreme Court held that there may also be a legal one. It ruled that a political consultant who planted damaging facts about an opponent could sue two Minnesota dailies for printing his name after reporters vowed not to. Yet the trend is toward more subpoenas to reveal sources, even in the 28 states that offer some sort of shield law, in part because judges often nullify the protection. They are especially prone to do so in cases involving serious crime. Reporters reply that the information being sought can be found in other ways or is not essential...
...squad detectives routinely help military police hunt down soldiers at gay and lesbian bars. Interrogations can last 12 hours, during which suspects are threatened with exposure to their parents, dishonorable discharge, and in the case of some lesbians, loss of custody of their children. Many suspects are pressured to reveal the names of other gay servicemen and -women. The interrogators, says Bridget Wilson of the Military Law Task Force in San Diego, which helps defend gay and lesbian service members, "are routinely dishonest, routinely incompetent and routinely lie to and terrorize service members in an attempt to get them...
...this mix of sexuality and catastrophe. In his Nobel lecture he finally replied: "The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man. While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths . . . to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice...
SCIENCE How some radio pulses may reveal a planet...